Record #:

7767

Author(s):

Parramore, Thomas C.

Abstract:

Spain had a formal claim to what is now North Carolina up to 1670, but most history books fail to mention that Spaniards actually occupied portions of the land for extended periods of time. Several clues indicate that this is true. When Virginia explorers landed in the Albemarle region in 1653, they came across a Native American who insisted that the explorers meet a wealthy Spaniard who had been residing with the Tuscarora Indians for seven years. Three years prior to this encounter, Edward Bland was instructed to make inquiries about a white man living with the Tuscaroras. 17th-century maps of the region, such as W. J. Blaeu's and Mercator's maps, also indicated possible connections with Spain. Spaniards might have resided with the Tuscarora Indians to keep an eye on England's settlement in the region. It is possible that Spain might have even supplied trading and arms to the Tuscarora in the Tuscarora War of 1711-1713.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 54 Issue 5, Oct 1986, p8-10, il, por, map

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Spaniards--North Carolina--History

Record #:

7768

Author(s):

Wicker, Jim

Abstract:

On August 5, 1781, a battle between Revolutionary War Patriots and Tories took place at the home of Mrs. Phillip Alston in Moore County. Mrs. Alston surrendered to the Patriots to save the lives of her children. Known as the House In The Horseshoe because it is located in a C-like bend in Deep River, the Alston home changed ownership several times before the Moore County Historical Society acquired it in 1954. The state then took ownership, restored it, and furnished it with colonial period decorations. Each year, during the first weekend in August, a reenactment battle is held.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 54 Issue 5, Oct 1986, p16-17, il

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--American Revolutionary War, 1775-1783; Historical reenactments--Moore County

Record #:

7778

Author(s):

Murray, Larona

Abstract:

The Do Drop In was established in 1947 in Winterville, North Carolina, by Wilbur Hardee. A year later he opened another restaurant at Port Terminal, near Greenville, and in 1954, Hardee purchased a building in Greenville known as the Three Steers. At a McDonald's Fast Food restaurant in Greensboro, North Carolina, Hardee noticed that their hamburgers were grilled and thought charcoaled hamburgers would be better. To prepare hamburgers this way, he opened the original Wilbur Hardee Restaurant in Greenville in 1960. Hardee sold out to Jim Gardner the same year and by 1986 there were more than 1,500 Hardees in the southeast.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 54 Issue 5, Oct 1986, p25, 39, il

Subject(s):

Fast food restaurants; Hardee, Wilbur, 1918-2008

Record #:

7779

Author(s):

Pearce, T. H.

Abstract:

Alice Person of Franklinton became interested in medicine when one of her daughters became ill with a type of tuberculosis. Doctors said that her daughter would not live, but Mrs. Person followed a stranger's directions for an herbal remedy, and three weeks later the child was cured. Mrs. Person heard a case of a similar illness, she sent a batch of the herbs, which were soon known as “Mrs. Joe Person's Remedy.”

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 54 Issue 5, Oct 1986, p22-24, il, por

Subject(s):

Person, Alice Morgan, 1840-1913